Numbers

prop. n.

1.

pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

Noun	1.	Numbers - the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt Synonyms: Book of Numbers
	2.	numbers - an illegal daily lottery Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket

numbers - (Scientific computation) Output from a computation that may not be significant but at least indicates that the program is running. Numbers may be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. "Making numbers" means running a program because output - any output, not necessarily meaningful output - is needed as a demonstration of progress. See pretty pictures, math-out, social science number.

To see numbers in your dream, signifies unsettled conditions in business resulting in uneasiness and dissatisfaction. For a specific number, please see Dream Themes: Numbers.Alexandrine, Stabreim, a mass of, a world of, accent, accentuation, algorism, algorithm, alliterative meter, amount, amphibrach, amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, applied mathematics, army, arsis, bacchius, beat, bevy, bingo, bulk, bunch, cadence, caesura, card games, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, cloud, clutter, colon, counterpoint, covey, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extent, fan-tan, feminine caesura, figures, flight, flock, flocks, foot, force, hail, hazard, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, higher mathematics, hive, horse racing, host, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jam, jingle, keno, large amount, legion, lilt, lots, lotto, magnitude, many, masculine caesura, mass, masses of, math, mathematic, mathematics, matter, measure, measurement, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mob, molossus, mora, movement, muchness, multitude, nest, pack, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, pinball, pitch and toss, plurality, policy, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pure mathematics, pyrrhic, quantitative meter, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few, rhythm, rouge et noir, roulette, rout, ruck, scanning, scansion, scores, shell game, shoal, spondee, sprung rhythm, strength, stress, substance, sum, swarm, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the numbers, the numbers game, thesis, throng, tidy sum, trente-et-quarante, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, vers libre, versification, whole, worlds of

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